Trash to cash promises hope
We know that disabled people want to work and what they need is an opportunity.
Wedding shamianas add to traffic woes
Traffic jams have become such a common nuisance that they fail to make any news now.
Dynamics of a tale
History is going to remember author Jeffrey Archer as a global phenomenon.
Education in the eye of language conflict
English is the undisputed king in the global radar of spoken languages. And it has become synonymous with good education in India. It is more than a notion that English helps get good jobs and opens up better opportunities. So, why did Rajya Sabha MPs get all worked up over the use of English language as the medium of
Netizens reach out to Tsunami-struck Japan
Just a few hours after a series of powerful quakes of 8.9 magnitude rocked Japan’s largest Honshu Island, cyberspace was abuzz with communities and groups on social networking sites in support for Jap
Code read makes new authors enter school
Reading is one fine habit when one can spend hours in the company of books and travel to far away lands.
Trails of a traveller
He is a traveller and loves to click with his camera. And he has clubbed the two in an effort to give a boost to local economies and make a difference. Photographer, columnist, writer, blogger and now a devoted traveller, Ajay Jain believes that if his stories and images can bring more travellers to the impoverished, but traveller-friendly places, then it would be his contribution to the society.
‘Yamini will wear vintage pieces only’
It is the most awaited wedding of the season and Varun Gandhi is all set to tie the knot with fiancé Yamini Roy on March 6. While Yamini plans to go vintage and will wear only heritage pieces, Maneka Gandhi will be seen in a restored sari that Jawaharlal Nehru had woven in 1940, for the wedding while for the reception designer Madhu Jain has picked up an Upada sari for her.
Taking a virtual break
We all love our friends. Don’t we? We were already so close to each other that we were just short of being called conjoined twins.
Mistress of pathos
Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a master at telling stories-within-stories and has a knack of transporting the readers to different lands with the sights, smells and enchanting imagery of her prose. This time she brings in a bunch of nine characters trapped in the visa office at an Indian Consulate after a massive earthquake hits an American city, who then take the story forward in her latest offering One Amazing Thing. As they wait to be rescued, they begin to tell stories, each recalling ‘one amazing thing’ in their life, sharing things they have never spoken of before.